2016 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament


The 2016 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament began on Friday, June 3, 2016, as part of the 2016 NCAA Division I baseball season. The 64-team, double-elimination tournament concluded with the 2016 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, starting on June 18, 2016, and ending on June 30, 2016. The 64 participating NCAA Division I college baseball teams were selected out of 298 eligible teams. Thirty-one teams were awarded an automatic bid, as champions of their conferences; the remaining 33 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee.
Teams were divided into sixteen regionals of four teams, which conducted a double-elimination tournament. Regional champions faced each other in Super Regionals, a best-of-three game series to determine the eight participants of the College World Series. The Atlantic Coast Conference set a conference record and tied the all-time mark of having ten teams in the championship field. A tournament-high seven regional hosts came from the Southeastern Conference, followed by six of the ten ACC schools; however, only Miami and Florida advanced to Omaha, and they were the first and second teams eliminated, respectively. For the first time since the tournament expanded from 48 teams in 1999, the NCAA did not select any Pac-12 schools to host a regional, and Lubbock, Texas was the westernmost regional host city picked by the selection committee.
In the CWS after Texas Tech lost to Big 12 rival TCU, none of the three national seeds who had reached Omaha had won their opening game. Tech eventually became the fourth team to be eliminated. While Oklahoma State and TCU advanced through the winners' bracket to set up a possible all–Big 12 championship, Arizona and Coastal Carolina won both elimination games to advance to the best-of-three final series.
With each team winning a game in the championship series to force a winner-take-all Game 3, the tournament reached the maximum of 17 games for the first time since 2003 when the finals expanded to best-of-three format. Coastal Carolina won the deciding game, 4-3, becoming the first team since 1956 to win the title in its first CWS appearance. Coastal Carolina won six elimination games in NCAA post-season play – one in a Regional, three in the CWS double-elimination bracket, and two in the Championship Series. The runner-up, Arizona, won six elimination games – three in a Regional and three in the CWS double-elimination bracket, but lost their 7th, the last game of the Championship Series.

Bids

Automatic bids

SchoolConferenceRecord BerthLast NCAA Appearance
America East30–23 Tournament2014
ConnecticutAmerican37–23 Tournament2013
ClemsonACC42–18 Tournament2015
Atlantic Sun29–29 Tournament2011
Atlantic 1030–25 Tournament2005
TCUBig 1242–15 Tournament2015
Big East30–28 Tournament2014
Coastal CarolinaBig South44–15 Tournament2015
Big Ten43–18–1 Tournament2009
Big West35–21 Regular Season2015
Colonial29–29 Tournament2013
Conference USA40–18 Tournament2011
Horizon44–15 Tournament2015
Ivy League24–19 Championship Series2011
Metro Atlantic32–24 TournamentFirst Appearance
Mid-American22–32 Tournament1989
Mid-Eastern29–25 Tournament2014
Missouri Valley41–17 Tournament2015
Mountain West38–21 Tournament2013
Northeast47–10 Tournament2014
Ohio Valley39–19 Tournament2002
Pac-1225–27 Regular Season2009
Patriot42–14–1 Tournament2011
Texas A&MSoutheastern45–14 Tournament2015
Southern30–29 Tournament2007
Southland41–20 Tournament2014
Southwestern Athletic38–15 TournamentFirst Appearance
Summit38–19 Tournament2014
Louisiana–LafayetteSun Belt41–19 Tournament2015
West Coast33–23 TournamentFirst Appearance
Western Athletic37–21 TournamentFirst Appearance

By conference

ConferenceTotalSchools
ACC10Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, NC State, Virginia, Wake Forest
SEC7Florida, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
Conference USA4Florida Atlantic, Louisiana Tech, Rice, Southern Miss
Pac-124Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Washington
American3East Carolina, Tulane, UConn
Big Ten3Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State
Big 123Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech
Big West3Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State, UC Santa Barbara
Colonial2UNC Wilmington, William & Mary
Southland2Sam Houston State, Southeastern Louisiana
Sun Belt2Louisiana–Lafayette, South Alabama
West Coast2Gonzaga, Saint Mary’s
America East1Binghamton
Atlantic 101Rhode Island
Atlantic Sun1Stetson
Big East1Xavier
Big South1Coastal Carolina
Horizon1Wright State
Ivy1Princeton
MAAC1Fairfield
Mid-American1Western Michigan
MEAC1Bethune-Cookman
Missouri Valley1Dallas Baptist
Mountain West1New Mexico
NEC1Bryant
Ohio Valley1Southeast Missouri State
Patriot1Navy
Southern1Western Carolina
SWAC1Alabama State
Summit1Oral Roberts
WAC1Utah Valley

National seeds

The following eight teams automatically host a Super Regional if they advance to that round:
  1. Florida
  2. ‡
  3. Miami
  4. Texas A&M ‡
  5. Texas Tech
  6. Mississippi State ‡
  7. Clemson †
  8. ‡
Bold indicates College World Series participant
† indicates teams that were eliminated in the Regional Tournament
‡ indicates teams that were eliminated in the Super Regional Tournament

Regionals and Super Regionals

Bold indicates winner. Seeds for regional tournaments indicate seeds within regional. Seeds for super regional tournaments indicate national seeds only.

Gainesville Super Regional

Baton Rouge Super Regional

College Station Super Regional

Lubbock Super Regional

Coral Gables Super Regional

Starkville Super Regional

Louisville Super Regional

Columbia Super Regional

College World Series

The College World Series was held at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska.

Participants

Bracket

Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only

Game results

All-Tournament Team

The following players were members of the College World Series All-Tournament Team.
PositionPlayerSchool
PAndrew BeckwithCoastal Carolina
PJ. C. CloneyArizona
1BRyan AguilarArizona
2BCody RamerArizona
3BZach RemillardCoastal Carolina
SSRyan MerrillTCU
CDavid ParrettCoastal Carolina
OFAnthony MarksCoastal Carolina
OFZach GibbonsArizona
OFJared OlivaArizona
DHLuken BakerTCU
MOPAndrew BeckwithCoastal Carolina

Final standings

Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only
PlaceSchoolRecord
1stCoastal Carolina11–3
2ndArizona11–4
3rdOklahoma State7–2
3rdTCU7–3
5thUC Santa Barbara6–2
5th 5 Texas Tech6–4
7th 1 Florida5–3
7th 3 Miami5–3
9thBoston College4–2
9thEast Carolina4–2
9thFlorida State4–2
9th 2 Louisville3–2
9th 8 LSU3–3
9th 6 Mississippi State3–2
9thSouth Carolina4–3
9th 4 Texas A&M4–2
17thArizona State2–2
17th 7 Clemson2–2
17thDallas Baptist3–2
17thGeorgia Tech2–2
17thLong Beach State2–2
17thLouisiana–Lafayette2–2
17thLouisiana Tech2–2
17thMinnesota2–2
17thNC State3–2
17thRice3–2
17thSouth Alabama2–2
17thTulane2–2
17thUNC Wilmington2–2
17thWilliam & Mary2–2
17thWright State2–2
17thXavier2–2
33rdCal State Fullerton1–2
33rdConnecticut1–2
33rdFlorida Atlantic1–2
33rdGonzaga1–2
33rdNavy1–2
33rdNew Mexico1–2
33rdOhio State1–2
33rdRhode Island1–2
33rdSam Houston State1–2
33rdSoutheastern Louisiana1–2
33rdSouthern Miss1–2
33rdUtah1–2
33rdVirginia1–2
33rdWake Forest1–2
33rdWashington1–2
33rdWestern Carolina1–2
49thAlabama State0–2
49thBethune-Cookman0–2
49thBinghamton0–2
49thBryant0–2
49thDuke0–2
49thFairfield0–2
49thNebraska0–2
49thOle Miss0–2
49thOral Roberts0–2
49thPrinceton0–2
49thSaint Mary's 0–2
49thSoutheast Missouri State0–2
49thStetson0–2
49thUtah Valley0–2
49thVanderbilt0–2
49thWestern Michigan0–2

Record by conference

The columns RF, SR, WS, NS, CS, and NC respectively stand for the Regional Finals, Super Regionals, College World Series, National Semifinals, Championship Series, and National Champion.

Media coverage

Radio

provided nationwide radio coverage of the College World Series through its Omaha station KOZN, in association with Westwood One. It was streamed at and on TuneIn. Kevin Kugler and John Bishop called all games leading up to the Championship Series with Gary Sharp acting as the field reporter. The Championship Series was called by Kugler, Bishop, and Scott Graham. Ted Emrich acted as field reporter for Games 1 & 2.

Television

carried every game from the Regionals, Super Regionals, and College World Series across its networks. During the Regionals, ESPN offered a dedicated channel, ESPN Bases Loaded, which carried live look-ins and analysis across all games in progress, hosted by Brendan Fitzgerald and Matt Schick with Kyle Peterson providing analysis.
The final game of the tournament aired on ESPNU, as the NCAA scheduled the game for an afternoon start, and there were scheduling conflicts with ESPN and ESPN2 due to UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2016 Wimbledon Championships.

Broadcast assignments

Regionals
Super Regionals
College World Series
Regionals
Super Regionals
College World Series Championship Series